The Excavations at BabylonMacmillan and Company, limited, 1914 - 335 páginas |
Contenido
| 34 | |
| 35 | |
| 36 | |
| 37 | |
| 38 | |
| 39 | |
| 40 | |
| 45 | |
| 47 | |
| 48 | |
| 49 | |
| 55 | |
| 60 | |
| 61 | |
| 65 | |
| 66 | |
| 68 | |
| 72 | |
| 74 | |
| 75 | |
| 76 | |
| 83 | |
| 85 | |
| 87 | |
| 89 | |
| 90 | |
| 91 | |
| 92 | |
| 93 | |
| 100 | |
| 104 | |
| 111 | |
| 113 | |
| 115 | |
| 117 | |
| 119 | |
| 121 | |
| 125 | |
| 127 | |
| 131 | |
| 132 | |
| 137 | |
| 144 | |
| 145 | |
| 150 | |
| 156 | |
| 169 | |
| 174 | |
| 178 | |
| 179 | |
| 180 | |
| 181 | |
| 183 | |
| 184 | |
| 185 | |
| 186 | |
| 187 | |
| 204 | |
| 205 | |
| 206 | |
| 207 | |
| 208 | |
| 209 | |
| 210 | |
| 213 | |
| 214 | |
| 215 | |
| 217 | |
| 218 | |
| 219 | |
| 221 | |
| 223 | |
| 224 | |
| 225 | |
| 226 | |
| 227 | |
| 229 | |
| 230 | |
| 231 | |
| 232 | |
| 233 | |
| 234 | |
| 235 | |
| 236 | |
| 239 | |
| 244 | |
| 270 | |
| 271 | |
| 272 | |
| 273 | |
| 274 | |
| 275 | |
| 276 | |
| 277 | |
| 278 | |
| 279 | |
| 280 | |
| 281 | |
| 282 | |
| 283 | |
| 284 | |
| 285 | |
| 286 | |
| 296 | |
| 300 | |
| 308 | |
| 310 | |
| 311 | |
| 314 | |
| 327 | |
| 328 | |
| 329 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Amran ancient Arachtu wall asphalt Babil Babylonian bastion bitumen Borsippa brick relief brickwork built bulls burnt brick canal cella centimetres chambers colour course crude brick Ctesias cylinder Delitzsch door doorway east eastern enamelled entrance Esagila Esarhaddon Etemenanki Euphrates excavations formed fortification walls foundations front gateway Greek ground ground-plan height Herodotus Homera Ishtar Gate joints Kasr King of Babylon Kisu Kweiresh laid in asphalt later layer Marduk Merkes metres above zero mighty moat wall mound mud brick mud wall Nabonidus Nabopolassar Nebuchad Nebuchadnezzar Neriglissar Nimitti-Bel Ninmach northern outer Parthian pavement peribolos period Persian placed portion postament pottery Principal Citadel Principal Court Procession Street recognised roof rows rubbish ruins Sardanapalus side sirrush Southern Citadel stamps Steinplatten inscription stone temple towers upper vaulted building western δὲ ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ μὲν οἱ τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῶν
Pasajes populares
Página 314 - Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Página 195 - To raise up the top of Etemenanki that it may rival heaven, I laid to my hand.
Página 192 - This space is reckoned as 10-33-20 in length (1056 feet) and 4-30 (450 feet) in breadth. There is again here a calculation of area, which I omit. Bound the court were six gates admitting to the temples. There were, 1, the grand gate ; 2, the gate of the rising sun (east) ; 3, the great gate ; 4, the gate of the colossi ; 5, the gate of the canal ; and 6, the gate of the tower-view. The next division is the space or platform apparently walled, and called a ki-galli, sur, or bind.
Página 25 - Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, King of Babylon, am I. The Babel Street I paved with blocks of shadu stone for the procession of the great Lord Marduk. Marduk, Lord, grant eternal life.
Página 193 - ... the other side the wing was 100 cubits long and 65 cubits broad (166 feet by 108 feet), and the space between them was 35 cubits wide (58 feet). The building at the back was 125 cubits long and 30 cubits broad (208 feet by 50 feet). I do not properly comprehend the disposition of the buildings on this side, and my description of the position of the western temples must be taken as conjectural. In these western chambers stood the couch of the god, and the throne of gold mentioned by Herodotus,...
Página 91 - In one of these western cells is a well which differs from all other wells known either in Babylon or elsewhere in the ancient world. It has three shafts placed close to each other, a square one in the centre and oblong ones on each side, an arrangement for which I can see no other explanation...
Página 54 - Nabfl and Marduk, when you traverse these streets in joy, may benefits for me rest upon your lips; life for distant days, and well-being for the body. Before you I will advance upon them. May I attain eternal age!
Página 193 - This building had a length of 4 gar, a breadth of 3J gar, and a height of 2£ gar (80 feet long, 70 feet broad, and 50 feet high). Thus the whole height of this tower above its foundation was 15 gar, or 300 feet, exactly equal to the breadth of the base ; and as the foundation was most probably raised above the level of the ground, it would give a height of over 300 feet above the plain for this grandest of Babylonian temples.
Página 192 - Ancient Monarchies,' vol. ii. p. 515), and, now that we have the dimensions of the building, must be rejected. First, I must remark on the Babylonian measures used, that they are principally the cubit, equal to about 1 foot 8 inches English ; and the gar or sa, equal to 12 cubits, or 20 feet English; but there is another series of numbers used in measuring, consisting apparently of * Athenasuni, Feb.
Página 211 - Silver, gold, costly precious stones, bronze, mismakannu, and cedar wood, all conceivable valuables, great (?) superabundance, the product of the mountains, the wealth of the sea, a heavy burden, a sumptuous gift, I brought to my city of Babil before him, and deposited in Esagila, the palace of his lordship, a gigantic abundance. Ekua, the chamber of Marduk, lord of the gods, I made to gleam like the sun. Its walls I clothed with solid (?) gold instead of clay (?) or chalk (?), with lapis and alabaster...